It’s real. BME only runs fake stuff on April first. Also, this is in the Modblog, not the regular page.
I think it’s interesting. I wouldn’t get a silicone brass knuckles implant, myself, but I think it’s an amazing example of what can be done. And it’s potentially removable, unlike, say, a tattoo.
I double checked . . . I’ll need corroberation from some other source before I can beleive it. I don’t deny that people are desperate enough for attention to maim their bodies like this, but it simply looks fake and seems like a joke.
Also . . . do you think it’s a coincidence that both of these girls have no other visible body mods other than the exact same type of lip piercing? Looks to me like some guy tried to photoshop the same idea onto pictures of two different girls.
Also, I think that a person who would want this radical of an implant would also be quite outrageous in appearance otherwise, and these girls look pretty tame aside from identicle brass knuckles and lip piercings.
I couldn’t find any evidence of this trend anywhere else on the web, either. This is a conspiracy!
It’s the same girl, with different hair color.
If it were real, she’s gonna have a great time with airport security.
I have no doubt at all that it is real. I have seen a lot of subdermal implant similarly done.
Its silicone… you can buy sheets of surgical grade silicone and carve it to whatever shape you want.
Implants are fairly commonly used in the forehead and head to mimic horns or just patters. Areas like the chest are done by opening up the layers of skin similar to peeling up the skin from a turkey to put butter between the skin and muscle… obvious differendes aside.
I’m a member of BMEZINE.com and have seen much crazier things on there.
Oh, I see. It’s a “right after” and “5 weeks later” thing, with a hairstyle change in the meantime.
Well, maybe it is real. I’m starting to come around. Now I’m absolutely cringing!
I also just remembered seeing lizard-man on television . . . that guy who is turning himself into a lizard (full-body tattoo of scales, clipped his tongue to have a fork in it) and cat-man (face and head implants for ears/whiskers, and a tail I think). I guess the brass knuckles are pretty tame in comparison.
Just… why?
I don’t doubt that it’s real (if the metal mohawk is real, then this can be), but I wonder why this design, in this place. Is it supposed to look like someone punched her hard in the chest? Is it a gang/underground symbol? Straight edge? I mean I understand the appeal of body mods, I have two tattoos myself, but I am baffled as to why someone would choose this design in this place.
Now, if you could implant REAL brass knuckles on your actual knuckles, that would be cool in that cyberpunk kind of way. Oh, it would still be gross, but at least it would be functional.
Actually, that’s just what I thought when I opened this thread.
My second thought (still not getting focused and kind of confused) was "How in the hell is she gonna knock some guy’s lights out with brass knucks…uh…there?)
Must be some weird kind of martial arts, I dunno.
It’s a fake.
If you own a quality graphics program, open up the image in it. As you zoom in, the pixelation value is different between the alleged implant and the surrounding parts of the image. You need to magnify the image to about 600 percent before it really starts to show. Of course, the “soft focus” approach was probably used to hide it.
Whoa . . . now that looks like a real pic. In fact, I retract my belief that the others are real . . . not because I don’t think it could be done, but because it simply looks fake. Compare the heart photo with the brass knuckles photos. Night and day . . . and the heart photo isn’t a high resolution photo either.
Also . . . how would they be able to get the skin to depress into the various rings within the brass knuckles? Without stitches holding the skin down, you’d think the skin would plateau across, with maybe a little depression, but not to the base of the brass knuckles.
Never mind the electronic reasons why it’s fake*; implanting things under your skin just don’t look like that. For one thing, if it was just done hours ago, she would have what would look like a watermelon on her chest from the bruising and swelling (and you don’t cram stuff under your skin without getting major bruising and swelling). Unless she has zero percent body fat and the thinnest, tightest skin ever, you simply don’t get definition like that under skin. This reminds me of that oh-so-fake picture of the fetus feet showing through the mother’s pregnant belly.
*I don’t really care if this site only does “real” mods - that ain’t real.
Looking around on that page some more, there are pictures of the actual procedure (Probably NSFW). I wonder: do the people that do these implants have any special training to do this? This is coming from a woman that did her own piercings in the comfort of her bathroom during high school, but having what amounts to surgery in a tattoo parlour seems a little crazy for me.
The second image is legit. I ran the same tests on it as I did with the first image. The pixelation differences are striking. Night and day.
Duckster, I thought you were joking with that first post, because of the smilie. You’re serious?
The reason that you see more individuation between pixels near the implant than the surrounding areas in the first picture is just that there’s contrast there. You see the same pixelation anywhere in the image that there’s similar contrast.
There’s nothing to indicate fakery there.
Did you make it down to the best part?
Which is the reason we try not to have nails sticking out of doorways and KEEP HOOPS OUT OF OUR EYELIDS!
I saw a news report some time back for a guy who’d developed a way to do gemlike implants on your eyeball (and no, I’m not googling for a cite, that shit creeps me out), which is just nasty IMHO.
The brass knuckle implants seem silly to me, and given the complaints I’ve heard about silicone boobies (they’re apparently hard), I can’t imagine that they’d be any different. Still, the heart implant was kind of neat, IMHO.
Allow me: Safe for work, but icky if you don’t like the idea.
I actually think the bumb implants (the thrid of the links Larry Mudd posted) look kinda cool, certainly not hideous. There others I’m mostly indifferent to, but I don’t really see any reason to presume they’re fake.
It’s fun to predict the next body modification trend, 'cos someone somewhere always ends up doing it. I predict people having their scalp removed to expose bits of their skull, maybe so they look like a monk.
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I guess I’m just boring, but those bump implants that you refer to just look like someone who has some tumors growing on their chest. And god knows that’s something to desire… :rolleyes:
Well, I think most of those mods look like shit, but I like the fact that now that tattoos and piercings have gotten so mainstream and lame that there’s still some people pushing the envelope.
